Week 4 - October 5: Neo-comparativism, ethnoscience, and theory of practice in Ethnomusicology
"Of insiders and outsiders, of theory and practice": Neo-comparativism, ethnoscience, theory of practice in Ethnomusicology
Reference readings:
Browse the entry “Ethnomusicology: IV. Contemporary theoretical issues” (by Martin Stokes) in Grove Music Online.
Read Stone 2008: chapters 4, 5, 7.
Discussion readings:
Browse Lomax 1976: 8-47 (skim the rest too, and listen to the tapes if you’re really keen).
Read Feld 1981.
Read Turino 1990.
Additional readings:
Feld 1990.
DUE: POP
DUE: brief presentation of POP in class
